Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova challenges the absoluteness of psychological and utilitarian narratives associated with our utilization and memory of everyday objects.
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova is a Miami, Florida-based artist, whose family immigrated to the United States from Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift in 1980, a series of events that assiduously inform his body of work. He studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida and the New World School of the Arts in Miami. Rodriguez-Casanova was the recipient of a 2007 Reed Foundation Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center and has received prestigious awards including the South Florida Cultural Consortium. He has exhibited in Miami and New York, and his work has been featured in publications such as The Miami Herald, Artnet Magazine, and Art in America.